Thread: Up/down/northbound/westbound?
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Old September 30th 10, 09:25 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
Clive D. W. Feather[_2_] Clive D. W. Feather[_2_] is offline
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Default Up/down/northbound/westbound?
In message , Graeme
wrote:
The main line use of up/down is not applicable to the UndergrounD

Why not?

so the
geographic system is more appropriate. I believe such useage predates Yerkes
involvement.

I have no evidence to this effect.

In 1901 the District used Up and Down (Up was generally westwards), the
Metropolitan used Up and Down (Up was generally eastwards/southwards),
and the C&SLR used Up and Down (Up was generally northwards).

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